Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8402, Jesse Ellis, Penn. Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn, Va.
Ellis, Jesse
S 8402
Remained.
carded
CONTENTS
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Letter 28 April 1837. Pen Agent
Letter to Eli David 29 March 1842.
Letter to 3 rd Auditor of Public Accts White Sulphur Springs Kentucky Oct 11 th 1842.
Paid at the Treasury under the Acts of April 6 th 1838 and Aug 23 rd 1842. from 4 th March 1839 to 4 th March 1841. Ag nt notified date 18 th 1842
Ohio
No 30,255
Jesse Ellis
of Adams Co in the State of Ohio who was a Pri — in the Com ny commanded by Captain Richey of the Reg t commanded by Linson in the Brigade  line for 6 mo
★ Pa. and Va.
Oct. 14, 1904. Records completed.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 20 Dollars . . . Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Nov. 1835 (1836) and for w th to Balsam White, Maysville, Ky.
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept '35. 90.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mar '36. 10.00 $ 100.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by R. Burdine — Clerk, Book 62. Vol. 8 Page 18.
Rate of Pension as per

State of Ohio 1 Adams County, ss. On this 11 th day of August in the year of Our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and thi- ty-five personally appeared in Open Court before the Common Pleas Court of Licking County of Adams and State of Ohio Now Sitting - like Ellis President of Licking County and State in the Twentyfourth year of his age who being Duly Sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following Statement or Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 That he entered the Service of the United States as follows In the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy six he Volunteered as a Soldier out of Captain Robert Stockman's Company of Militia then of Virginia Brooks County, and performed a Tour of Duty of Six Months Under the Command of Captain Mathew Richey and Ensign Ebenezer Corn and was encamped at the Fort Holladay's Cove on the Banks of the Ohio River in Brooke County We were kept there at that Fort as Guards of Licking Fort and in Defence of the Family's in Licking Fort the Family who was Forted in Licking Fort was Warman's Family and Family Ezekiel Barnett & Family Capt Richey & Family and Several Others Now Not Recollected We Remained at Licking Fort Holladay's Cove Six Months I Entered this Six Months Tour of Duty the first day of April in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy six and was Discharged the fourth day of October following and a few Days before I was Discharged and the Cause of our being Discharged there was sent to Captain Mathew Richey's Company a Company of Virginia Troops called the Patterson's Creek as we Understood and was Discharged a day or two after their Arrival and this Applicant further States That in the Year and in the Spring of Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight he Entered the Service of the United States Under the following named officers and men as herein after stated and was in Captain Andrew Swearingins Company, and in Colonel John Linsons (or Stursons) Regiment in the Spring of 1878 he was =

= Ordeal By the Colone Commanding the Regiment to per- = form a Tour of Duty of Six Month and Go on an Exped- -ition Commanded By General Sackre McIntosh Against the Indians and To Rendezvous at Pittsburgh in August of the Same Year From Which they Marched to the Mouth of Big Beaver Creek On the Ohio River and Remained until a Strong Fort Was Erected called Fort McIntosh The Army Which Remained and Built Fort McIntosh as Above Stated Was Composed of the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment Commanded By Colonel Broadhead The 13 th Virginia Regiment By Colonel Gibson Two Regiments of Militia One Commanded By Colonel John Stinson (or Stevenson) And the Other Commanded By Col. Evans That after Building Fort McIntosh the Whole Army Except One Company left at Said Fort Marched to the upper Forks of the Muskingum River on to Tuscarawas Creek and there Built a Fort called Fort Lawrence and aft- -er finishing the Same the Army Marched on their Way and Return to Fort McIntosh leaving Colonel John Gibson and his Regiment to keep Said Fort Lawrence And When We Arrived at Fort McIntosh War Mustang and Dimmick And Further This Applicant State, In Manner and Matter In Relation to a Tour of Service for Six Months Additional and Further Service if On the first of August in the Year One thousand and Seventy nine the Militia was Called on to perform a Tour of Six Month Service to Go on an Exped- -ition Commanded By Colonel Broadhead to Go against the Indians up the Alleghany River and pursue them as far as the Munsee Towns on the head Waters of Allegheny River At that Time I Belonged to Captain Nathan Ellis Company of Militia Washington County Penn- -sylvania the Drum Beat for Volunteers I think the first day of August 1779 Capt Nathan Ellis Volunteered and Went as Captain of a Company and I Was a Volunteer in his Company as a Soldier and Rendezvous at Pitt- =burgh About the third day August in 1779 and

3 Marched on this Expedition a Soldier under the following Name as Officers Broadhead was Colonel Samuel M c Culloch was Our Major Nathan Ellis was My Captain My Lieutenant was Thomas Stokely Ensign Joseph Beale M c Mee in Number of the Whole Army on this Expedition about Seven hundred Men Including officers & Soldiers on our March to the Indian Towns called Miamsee Towns and Within three days March of the Towns We met a Party of Indians Our Advance Guard commenced a heavy and brisk Attack We Beat them off and Killed and Took Fifteen Skulps they wounded two of Our men One of the Wounded was the Grandly Sergeant of My Company By the name of Thomas Askins We continued our our March and Reached the Indian Towns or Miamsee Towns in three days after this Battle and when We Arrived We found the Indians had fled leaving Behind about five hundred Acres of Corn & a number of Horned Cattle all their Horses and some Hogs We Also found sunk in a hole of Water twenty one or two Brass Kettles the plan they drew them for Sleazy or hiding Under orders of Our Colonel Broadhead Commander We laid Waste & Destroyed and Burnt the Corn in the fields Burnt their Towns and Killed Horses and Cattle and Remained until We Completely and Absolutely Burnt Killed & Destroyed every Species of Property We found in or about the Towns Colonel Broadhead then March us on Our Return back to a Creek called French Creek where We encamped and Col Broadhead sent about 400 Men on an Expedition up French Creek to its Forks where there had been an old Indian Town to Reconnoitre Laid Waste and put to flight any New Settlements the Indians might or was about to erect and on the Return of these Troops the whole of the Army again took up the line of March for Pittsburgh and was When We arrived there was Mustered and Dismissed after a Service of More than Six months. JESSE ELLIS

Mr Dyer Burgess and Christopherman & Ellis Parmes citizens Resident of and in the County of Adams and State of Ohio hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with S r Ellis who has Subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be of the age above stated and a man Respectable for Truth and Veracity that he is Reputed and Believed in the Neighborhood where he Resides to have been a Sol- -dier of the Revolution and that we do concur in the Opinion and think his Statement worthy of Credit
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Dyer Burgess Ellis his Parmes Mark
And the Said Court of Adams County do hereby Declare their Opinion after the Investigation of the matter and after the Interrogatories being put as prescribed by the War Department that the above Namarsife Ellis the Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as in States And the Court further certify that Dyer Burgess who has signed the Above Certificate is a Chareyman Resident in the County of Adams and State of Ohio And that of Ellis Parmes - who has also Signed the Same is a Credable Person of the Same County and State and is a Credable person and that their Statement is entitled to full Faith and Credit
W m Morrison Samuel M c Clanahan Joseph Eyer
The Interrogatories Prescribed by the War Department Propounded by the Said Court with the Answers therunto of the Said S r Ellis the Applicant above named are as follows
Q 1 Where and in What year were you born Ans 1 I Was Born in Frederick County in the State of Maryland the 15 th day of October 1756

Q. 2 d Have you any Record of your age if so when is it A. " I took from my Father's Bible a transcript of my age " as was there recorded By which means I state as above
Q. 3 d Where were you living when called into Service where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
A. " I was living in Washington County Pennsylvania where I " lived seven years thence I removed to Ohio County Virginia " where I lived twelve years thence I removed to the North " Western Territory now State of Ohio in Adams County where I " now live
Q. 4 th How were you called into Service were you drafted or did or did you volunteer or was you a Substitute
A. " The Six Months' Tour of Duty I served under Capt. Mathew " Richey and performed at Fort Woodcreek Cove I was a " Volunteer out of Captain Robert Jackson's Company of " Militia and was attached to Capt. Mathew Richey's Company " under whom I performed the Six Months Service as stated " in my Application " And the Six Months Service I performed under General " Lachlan McIntosh I was called into Service By Draft " out of Nathan Ellis Company of Militia I was drafted " in the month of July 1778 when a Resident of Washington " County Pennsylvania And the Six Months Tour of " Duty I performed under Colonel Broadhead up the " Alleghany River I volunteered out of Capt. Nathan Ellis's " Company of Militia Capt. Nathan Ellis volunteered also " and went on that Expedition as Captain of a Volunteer " Company and I was one of his Soldiers and served " in his Company on that Expedition
Q. 5 th State the names of the Regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your Service
A. " The Six Months Tour of Duty I served under Capt. " Mathew Richey at Fort Woodcreek Cove there was

Only a Captain and his Company Called Out Which Was to Keep the Fort and Defend the Inhabitance of the New Settlement against the Indians for they Were Frequently Killing Some of our Whites and Stealing our Horses There Was No Other Officers nor Men until a company Was Raised and Marched from Pattersons Creek to our Relief Our Time of Service expired the day after they Arrived — In answer to the Six Month Services I performed under Genl. McIntosh Colonel Broadhead Commanded the 8 th Penn- sylvanian Regiment and Major Vernon of the Same Regiment Were Regular Officers of the Continental line and So. Was Captain Van Swearingen of the Same Regiment Colonel John Gibson Com- mander of the 13 th Virginia Regiment of Continental Troops Daniel Steel Major The Captains Were Steel Crow and Swearingen I Served with the above named Officers in Genl. McIntosh's Expedition Refered to in My Declaration Colonel John Gibson or Stevenson, Commanded the Militia Regiment of which My Company Was part Colonel John Evans and Major Sp- -ringer Commanded an Other Militia Regiment and Several of the Captains I might Name But Presume it Unnecessary I Served with them during the Expedition Refered to and Alre- -ady Detailed in My Declaration the Circumstances of My Service in this Campaign — In Relation to My Services for a Six Month Tour of Duty under the Command of Colonel Broad- -head On an Expedition up the Alleghany River Colonel Broadhead Commanded One Regiment and Colonel John Gibson Commanded a Regiment of Virginia Troops Samuel McCulloch Was Major of a Militia Battalion and Captain Nathan Ellis's Company Was a part of Major McCulloch's Command I Belonged to Capt. Nathan Ellis's Company I might State further in Relation to this last Tour of

Service But Old Age and loss of Memory Does Not at this moment Serve me to Give further Statements as to the names and grade of the Officers in this Campaign Question 6 th Did you ever Receive a Commission if so By Whom Was it Given and What became of it
Ans r " I never Received a Commission I was a Soldier in " Matthew Ritchey's Company on my first Six Months " Duty at Fort M'Intosh Cove And I was a " Soldier in Captain Van Swearingen's Company " On General McIntosh Expedition And I was a " Soldier in Captain Nathan Ellis Company on " Colonel Broadheads Expedition up the Alleghany
Qu st 7 th State the names of Some of the persons to whom you are known in your Present Neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for truth and veracity and their belief as to your services as a Soldier of the Revolutionary War Ans r I will State Some of my Respectable Neigh- bors names John Grimes Charles Thompson John Barr these gentlemen have been acquainted with for more than fifteen years.
Franklin County } State of Ohio } Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County John Grimes Charles Thompson & John Barr who make oath that they have been acquainted with S up r Ellis for more than fifteen years and Verily Believe him entitled to Credit and do Believe he performed the Services set forth in his Application Robert Pence (P)

The State of Ohio Adams county ss I Joseph Darlington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jesse Ellis for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court this 11 th day of August in the year of our Lord 1835
Joseph Darlington Clerk A.C.O.

January 22, 1936
Jesse Ellis-S.8402 BA-J/AWF aw
Mr. Grafton Stuart Myers, Jr. 3303 Alta Vista Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Jesse Ellis and Archibald Tweed, both pensioners of the State of Ohio.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited trained clerical force available for furnishing such information, it is not possible to comply in full with each request for Revolutionary War data.
The record of Jesse Ellis is furnished herein as found in papers on file in pension claim, S. 8402, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution.
Jesse Ellis was born October 15, 1756 in Frederick County, Maryland, names of his parents not given. He lived with his "father's family" in either Brooke County, Virginia or Washington County, Pennsylvania, during the Revolution .
Jesse Ellis volunteered April 1, 1776, served six months as private in Captain Mathew Richey's Company, was stationed in a fort at Holiday's Cove on the Ohio River in Brooke County, Virginia. He enlisted in the spring of 1778, served in Captain Andrew Swearingen's Company, Colonel John Stinson's or Stephenson's Regiment, went in General Lachlan McIntosh's Expedition against the Indians and assisted in erecting

Fort McIntosh, length of this service six months. He enlisted August 1, 1789, served six months in Captain Nathan Ellis' Company, Colonel Brodhead's Pennsylvania Regiment, went to the Indian Towns on the headwaters of the Allegheny River, was in a skirmish with the Indians and took fifteen "scalps".
The soldier, Jesse Ellis, lived in Ohio County, Virginia, for about twelve years after the Revolution, then moved to Adams County, Ohio. He was allowed pension on his application executed August 11, 1835, at which time he was living in said Adams County. In 1842 he was living in Adams County, Ohio.
There is no reference to wife or children.
His brother, Samuel Ellis, was eighty-two years of age in 1835, then living in Brown County, Ohio; he was orderly-sergeant in General McIntosh's Campaign.
If you desire information relative to the last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the pensioner, Jesse Ellis, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and cite the following:
Jesse Ellis Certificate # 30255 Issued November 12, 1835 Rate $20.00 per annum To commence March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

33. 228
Leese Ellis Ohio
Can only allow for six months.
first term 1776 not settled by 1777 after which provided for. 2 nd term only 4 mos, third term only two months.

State of Ohio } Brown County }
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Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the peace Within and for said County Samuel Ellis aged about eighty two years and a man of Respectable Standing in Civil Society for Truth and Veracity and first Being Duly Sworn Saith that he this deponent was well acquainted with his Brother Sipe Ellis from his Earliest Recollection and even down to the present Period And this deponent States his Brother Sipe Ellis Volunteered in the Spring of 1776 out of Robert Sackmans Company of Militia to Join Captain Richeys Company and did perform a Six Month Tour of Duty under Captain Richey and Ensign Blinzen born on an Expedition and Camp Duty against the Indians and Rendavouses at Fort Hotadaays Cove on the Ohio River in Brooke County Virginia And this deponent States Sipe Ellis did perform this Six Month tour of Duty as this Deponent well knows as my Brother Sipe Ellis And myself Both lived in Our Fathers Family And this deponent further States his Brother Sipe Ellis performed a Tour of Six Month Duty under General Sacklin MacIntosh in the year 1778 Called McIntosh's Campaign and he further States that he served with his Brother Sipe Ellis in Captain Swann Swannings Company During said Campaign and that this Deponent was orderly Sergeant of said Company and his Brother Sipe Ellis was a Soldier in said Company During the During the Expedition and term of Six Month Service And this deponent further States his Brother Sipe Ellis served with a Degree of Bravery and Honor to himself as this Deponent well knows -

And this deponent a further and additional tour of six months service or duty on a campaign comm- enced a By Colonel Broadhead and Rundavound at Pittsburgh in August 1779 to go on an Expedition against the Indians up the Alleghany River to the Munsee towns and Muck Creek in Nathan Ellis's Company which Company was composed of Volunteers and was a Volunteer Company and this Deponent States he does well know his Brother Sipsu Ellis did Perform this as well as the two former Tours, last Tour under Colonel Broadhead and commanded by Capt. Nathan Ellis And further saith not
Samuel Ellis
State of Ohio } ss Brown County } ss
I John M c Grew a Justice of the Peace Within and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing Deposition of Samuel Ellis was taken sworn to and subscribed before me on the fourth day of May One thousand eight hundred and thirtyfive And I further certify that I have been personally acquainted with Samuel Ellis for some time and of his general character which is unimpeachable and verily believe him to be entitled to full faith and credit in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of May 1835
John M c Grew
(S)

The State of Ohio ss Brown County ss
J. G. Kling Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Brown do hereby certify that John McGrew Esquire before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken and sworn to was at the time of taking and signing the same an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that as such full faith and credit is due to all his official acts. Given under my hand & seal this 4 th day of May A.D. 1835.
J. G. Kling Clerk

Oct 18
Free
J. G. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. No 335 Ohio 2nd Jake

Franklin Bank of Cincinnati 12 th April 1837
Sir,
The enclosed pension voucher of J. Ellis a pensioner under the act of 7 th June 1832. is for your examination, which if found correct you will please to return to this Agency with an order for payment.
I am yours
Very respectfully John H. Groesbeck P. Agt. By R. W. Lawrence
J. G. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
October 14 th 1842.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, Jesse Ellis , _____ a Pensioner on the Roll of the Ohio _____ Agency, at the rate of Twenty _____ Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832 , has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1839, to the 4 th March 1841.  Respectfully, yours,
William L. Harris Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Mar 28 1842
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Mr Evans
J. L. Edwards Esquire commissioner of pensions Washington city
Meriden o March 24th

Adams county Ohio the 10 th of march 1842
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Dear Sir I have just returned home from Cincinnati where I went expecting to have received the small sum allowed to me on account of my services in the revolution but to my disappointment the officer of the bank refused to pay me the amount due which was three years pay I had not applied for payment for three years last passed on account of my infirmity now in the 87 th year of my age and far advanced in the decline of life and living as I do about seventy miles from Cincinnati nevertheless after some admonish- ed trouble the officer of the bank did pay me one years allow- ance leaving two years allowance yet unpaid
Now My dear sir will you be so obliging as to cause the matter to be so arranged that I may receive the amount yet due to me which is forty dollars which when received will be only a partial but a seasonable relief to wants of an aged soldier of the revolution.
With sentiments of due respect I am your obedient servant
Jesse Ellis
In your answer to me you will address to Eli Davidson post Master in Aberdeen . . . . . J. Ellis

Hamilton county } personally appeared before me state of Ohio } the under signed one of justices of the peace within and for said
county Jacob White Esquire and being duly sworn according to law saith that he this deponent was intimately acquainted with Jesse Ellis in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight and for several years before and after and does know that the said Jesse Ellis did perform and faithfully served a tour of duty of six months as a militia soldier in Captain Andrews weaver gun company under the command of General McIntosh in the said year 1778 as this deponent was on in the same campaign he thinks that he saw the said Ellis every day or nearly so through the whole time of service and further this deponent saith not
Jacob White
Sworn to Subscribed
Before me this 11 th April 1835
Jam. Gleason

The State of Ohio, Hamilton County, ss
I William H. Harrison Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County, do hereby certify that James Plann is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said county duly elected, commissioned & qualified: his commission is dated on the 22 nd day of December A.D. 1832 and will expire on the 22 nd day of December A.D. 1835 and that the within name purporting to be his signature is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of our said court at Cincinnati this 11 th day of April Anno Domini 1835.
W. H. Harrison Clerk By H. L. Rucker Off.

Hamilton county Ohio To personally appeared before me the under signed one of the justices of the peace within and for said county Jacob White of lawfull age and being duly sworn according to law saith that he this deponent does know that Jossey Ellis did serve a tour of duty of six months as private soldier in Captain Andrew Swearingen's company during an expedition commanded by General McIntosh in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy eight and at the end of said time was duly dismissed This deponent was on the same campaign and knows the above to be a true statement
Jacob White
The State of Ohio
Be it known that I Sam Gleason Justice of the Peace within & for said county do hereby Certify that the above Affft Jacob White was sworn to & subscribed to before me on 30th Sept 1885. I further Certify that I have been personally acquainted with the deponent for upward of twenty years that he is a man of good moral standing in society & that he is unable to benefit under a will, many years or else where & that he is an old man & likely to have seen the business spoken of
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 30th Sept 1885
Sam Gleason Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio, Hamilton County ss I William H. Harrison clerk of the court of Common Pleas within and for said county, do hereby certify that James Glenn whose proper signature appears to the within was on the date of same and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit are due and ought to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court at Cincinnati this 5 th day of October, Anno Domini 1835 W m H. Harrison Clerk

$20 per ann. act 7 June 1832
== send cert. to Caleb White, Esq. Maysville Ky.
==

I hereby Authorise Caleb White or any person whom he may appoint to Demand and Receive from the Government or officers of Government any pay on account of My Services in and During the Revolution- ary War that is Due me for My Services By an act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 Dated this 11 th day of August 1835.
J. S. Ellis

I hereby Relinquish every claim whatever to a Pension or an Annuity except the Pensions and I do Declare that My Name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State and that this is My first application for Pay for My Services in the War of the Revolution, dated this 26 th day of October 1835
Jesse Ellis
State of Ohio Adams County } Personally appeared before me Van S. Brady a Justice of the Peace in and for Adams County and State of Ohio Jesse Ellis and Acknowledges the signing of the above Relinquishment to be his act in order to obtain a Pension from the Government for his Services in the Revolutionary War as given under My hand this 26 th day of October 1835
The State of Ohio } Adams County }
Van S. Brady
Justice of the Peace
Joseph Darlington Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the above named Van S. Brady Esq. who has signed the above certificate was at the time of signing the same & still is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified & that full faith & credit are due to his said certificate of all his official acts by him done as well in Courts of Justice as otherwise In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at West Union this 28 th day of October in the year of our Lord 1835 and in the 33 rd year of this State
Joseph Darlington Clerk A.C.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Isaac Ellis a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his ( or his widow's ) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau. S. 8402
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 1, 1776 Oct. 4, 1776 Private Mathew Richey in fort at Helderberg in Dutch Co., Va.   Spring 1778 6 mos. Andrew Emmons John Stinson Penn.   Aug. 1, 1779 6 mos. Nathan Ellis Broadhead Penn.        
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington Co., Penn.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 11, 1835. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Adams Co., Ohio.
Age at date of application, born Oct. 15, 1756 in Frederick Co., Md.
Remarks: brother Samuel alive in 1835. No further family data.
He did not state that he was related to Capt. Ellis - (omitted in Circular sent to Mrs. Leeka. Fr.)
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

December 8, 1935
The Veterans Administration Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I am advised that your department can give me information concerning the Revolutionary War and pension records of JESSE ELLIS of the 12th Virginia Regiment of the Continental Line. A "Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services", Washington 1841, states that Jesse Ellis was living in 1840 at Spring, Adams County, Ohio and was at that time 86 years old. A record of Virginia Revolutionary soldiers states: Jesse Ellis, 12th Virginia Regiment WD 245,2 also Bounty Warrants, also Illinois Papers D101, also War 4, 175.
Jesse Ellis later removed to Alexandria, Madison County, Indiana and was living there in 1844.
I wish to get as complete information as possible from your files regarding his war records, application for pension, descendents mentioned, etc. Please also advise me of the rules and regulations of your department concerning these inquiries.
Yours very truly,
Grafton Stuart Myers, Jr.
Grafton Stuart Myers, Jr. 3303 Alta Vista Dr. Chattanooga, Tenn.

December 8, 1935
The Veterans Administration Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I am advised that your department can give me information concerning the Revolutionary War and pension records of ARCHIBALD TWEED of York County, Pennsylvania (Census of 1790). He later removed to Clermont County, Ohio. He was born in 1748 and died Dec. 24, 1830. I wish to get as complete information as possible from your files regarding his war records, application for pension, descendents mentioned, etc.
Yours very truly,
Grafton Stuart Myers, Jr. Grafton Stuart Myers, Jr. 3303 Alta Vista Dr. Chattanooga, Tenn.

Rev Sec 5 Marion, Ohio, Aug. 14-1918.
The Honorable Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.-
My dear Sir:— Will you please give me information regarding a pensioner of the Revolutionary War, Jesse Ellis, of Adams (or Brown) County, Ohio, who served in a Pennsyl- vania Reg't? His application was in 1835, I think.
Please give me name of Captain under whom he served, also the Colonel commanding, and name of Reg't, also extent of service.
Yours very truly,
(Mrs.) Ora Ellis Leeka, 613 E. Center St., Marion, Ohio.

1916 Oct. 30. Hist. to Mrs. F. G. Endelman letter in R. file 3313 Jeremiah Ellis. R. 1918, Aug. 22. Hist. To Mrs. Ora Ellis Leek 1936 Jan. 22 " " to Captain Stewart Rogers Jr.
Rev. War
8402 INVALID.
File No. 8402
Jesse Ellis Brn. Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1st , Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]